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At most companies I've worked for, the CEO didn't even really have a desk because they never used it anyways. They're always in meetings or out of office, so th

At most companies I've worked for, the CEO didn't even really have a desk because they never used it anyways. They're always in meetings or out of office, so they had a regular old desk assigned to them, but it was usually empty. (and they were all open plan) But I agree with your assessment.

BinaryIdiot 10y ago
Seems every company handles this different. When I had an internship at Polk Audio I was warned not to go near the executive offices nor to make eye contact with Matt Polk. Initially I thought people were joking but when I walked near the executive offices one time I thought the secretary was going to have a seizure. (Note this was before they sold the company; I'd imagine it's different now with a different executive team)
aetherson 10y ago
My current employer (Life360) and former employer (Flywheel) both had the CEO and all other executives working at desks in the open floorplans. I think that there comes a size of company where that gets impractical, and Snap is probably at least that size. But it's by no means crazy for execs to work in the open floorplan.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  According to a LinkedIn query, admittedly a coarse metric for current headcount, Snapchat has 1290 current employees (includes founders, etc as well) [1]. Crunchbase says 101–250. They seem to have somewhat intentionally disappeared off of AngelList with just 3 employees listed. Edit: LinkedIn is not too far off from what's mentioned in the article: > The top-secret Snap Labs group overseeing the Spectacles is such a priority that the group earlier this year set a goal of hiring 200 people in just sixty days, according to the staffer who left. The hiring plan was especially aggressive for a company whose total headcount is just above 1,000 employees. [1]: https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=3186630&trk=rr_connectedness https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=3186630&trk=rr_conne...

BinaryIdiot 10y ago

Seems every company handles this different. When I had an internship at Polk Audio I was warned not to go near the executive offices nor to make eye contact with Matt Polk. Initially I thought people were joking but when I walked near the executive offices one time I thought the secretary was going to have a seizure. (Note this was before they sold the company; I'd imagine it's different now with a different executive team)

aetherson 10y ago

My current employer (Life360) and former employer (Flywheel) both had the CEO and all other executives working at desks in the open floorplans. I think that there comes a size of company where that gets impractical, and Snap is probably at least that size. But it's by no means crazy for execs to work in the open floorplan.

tedmiston 10y ago
According to a LinkedIn query, admittedly a coarse metric for current headcount, Snapchat has 1290 current employees (includes founders, etc as well) [1]. Crunchbase says 101–250. They seem to have somewhat intentionally disappeared off of AngelList with just 3 employees listed. Edit: LinkedIn is not too far off from what's mentioned in the article: > The top-secret Snap Labs group overseeing the Spectacles is such a priority that the group earlier this year set a goal of hiring 200 people in just sixty days, according to the staffer who left. The hiring plan was especially aggressive for a company whose total headcount is just above 1,000 employees. [1]: https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=3186630&trk=rr_connectedness https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=3186630&trk=rr_conne...